DEEPFISHMAN Kick-off meeting Nantes 12-14 May 2009

DEEPFISHMAN general aim Develop strategy options for the management of deepwater fisheries in the NE Atlantic Appropriate/new Stock assessment methods Biological reference points (BRPs) Harvest Control rules (HCRs) Managements strategies Account of Stock vulnerability Biodiversity/ecosystem and VMEs sustainability and conservation Specify additional monitoring data requirements (e.g.) lack of on-going cruises, economics data missing in some fisheries, poor knowledge of high resolution spatial distribution of fishing effort (required for management of VMEs conservation) Deep-water stock have proven difficult to assess so far due to (1) limitation of data; (3) lacking basic biological parameters, stock distribution, migrations Current management does not integrate stock and ecosystem aspect (deepwater fishing is known to impact sensitive benthic communities such as CWC and sponges). Some rare non commercial species may be more sensitive to fishing than target stock (no current assessement nor management framework to take account of this)

Current situation: assessment Exploratory/unreliable in most CSs Existing data no all available to assessment groups (e.g. ICES/WGDEEP) No protocole to integrate some data (e.g. on-board observations)

Current situation: management (EU only) Main management tool= TACs Effort limitation (cap on total effort, licensing scheme) Existing technical measures: e.g. spatial and seasonal closures for blue ling Ecosystem/biodiversity assessment: not integrated with stock assessment Some MPAs designed for VMEs conservations Licensing scheme but no protocole for adjusting fleet capacity and/or effort to TACs levels

What should be achived in 2012 Reliable assessments and/or indicator based management BRPs, HCRs Monitoring framework Requirements for progress towards objectives of WSSD (e.g. MSY estimated data or requirements) (For EU) MSFD initial ecosystem assessment indicators relevant to the 11 ecosystem descriptors of MSFD Monitoring framework (which data should be collected and how) Integrated in a long-term management strategy framework

From 2009 to 2012 2009 Assessment Management 2012 Short term management framework Future Long term management and monitoring framework

WP1: Management and Coordination Coordintor: IFREMER General organisation Governing Board All partner representatives Steering Group Coordinator and WP Leaders & 2 CS Leaders WP7: Management strategy framework Integrates Overall Project Impacts Leader AZTI WP2 Review of existing Management & monitoring approaches Leader CEFAS WP3 Socio- economic study Leader UoI WP4 Dev. of appropriate Assessm. Methodol. Leader Imp. College. WP5 Reference Points & HCRs Leader Imp. College WP6 Trends in biodiversity Leader IFREMER During the kick-off we’ll go through detail of each WP Case study are essential tot he start of the project, then we must organise the right interaction between CSs and WPs. In the first afternoon WPs leader are presenting their WP and the way they’d like to proceed. Tomorrow morning, we’ll do a review of Case studies, these two sessions (this afternoon, tomorrow morning should allow to specify CS-WP interactions). THE SELECTED CASE STUDIES COLLATE DATA & PROVIDE INPUTS FOR WPs WP8: Dissemination & Outreach Leader MRI

WP2 CS 1 CS 2 CS3 CS4 SC5 Directed single species fisheries Multi species fishery CS3 Artisanal fisheries CS4 Data rich Redfish SC5 Greenland halibut NAFO Reviews Data Preliminary report (M6) Case study workshop (M6) Final report (M12) WP2

Case studies Case study Leader Contributors 1Directed SS a OR Namibia b OR W. Ireland c Blue Ling a NatMIRC (R Cloete) b M.I. (L Dransfeld) c Cefas (P. Large) a b Ifremer, Cefas c Ifremer, AZTI, MRI, MI, others 2 Mixed demersal Ifremer (P. Lorance) Cefas, IEO, MI 3 Artisanal a RBS Cadix/BoB b RBS Med. Sea c BSF Portugal a IEO (J Gil) b HCMR (C-Y Politou) c IPIMAR (I Figueiredo) a Ifremer b c 4 Data rich Redfish NEA IMR (P. Planque) MRI 5 Data rich G. halibut NAFO IEO (F. Gonzales) IPIMAR Case studies

How to proceed in practice During the first year: major meeting= « all Case studies meeting ». See further presentation of WP2 from P. Large Mid-term meeting will be again here in Nantes just before or after ICES ASC 2010 Socio economic workshop durignt he second half of year 2 + steering group (every 6 month) + governing board (every 12 months)

WP8: date of stakeholder workshop: 29-30 June 2009, Brussels I don’t detail timetables/deadlines of WP5-WP7 now as they are less active in year 1. Essential to consider these at kick-off in terms of interactions with WP2 and CSs WP8: date of stakeholder workshop: 29-30 June 2009, Brussels + steering group (every 6 month) + governing board (every 12 months)

Meeting and workshops Month 1= 04/2009 Month 2= 05/2009 Meetings table as in annex 1 « Description of the work » page 19: changes in yellow boxes Moved to date of deepsea conference Iceland 2010 ?

Meeting and workshops (continued)

Deliverables WP1 D1.2 – D.13 WP2 D2.1 WP3 WP4 D4.1 WP5 D5.1 WP6 WP7 Year 1: April 2009- Mars 2010 WP1 D1.2 – D.13 WP2 D2.1 WP3 WP4 D4.1 WP5 D5.1 WP6 WP7 WP8 D8.1 - D8.2 - D8.5 - D8.6 1 month delay

Project management, executives bodies Governing board All partners meeting every year Executive steering group Coordinator + WP leaders + 2 CSs leaders Meeting every 6 months